Premier David Alward told a legislative assembly Wednesday that Elections New Brunswick (ENB) mistakenly distributed a disc containing voters’ personal information, including phone and driver’s licence numbers, CBC News reports. Alward said, “This incident appears to be (a) case of human error on the part of the voter information systems manager” at ENB, and added, “we will expect a full investigation and report.” New Brunswick Privacy Commissioner Anne Bertrand said the incident could be the largest breach in the province’s history, but by Thursday afternoon, 43 of the 57 voter lists have been returned.
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